Who Uses Their Lanyards?

For me they just get in the way of the work. Annoying and useless. I've tried wrapping the thing around my wrist, but had an accident when the knife slipped out of my hand when chopping branches off a tree - it swung back at me and cracked my forearm with the spine (luckily!). Still hurt a bit, but nowhere near as much as if it would've been the business side of the blade. If I didn't have the lanyard the knife would've just fallen to the ground.
 
Right now I just have a lanyard on my Spyderco Rescue and I use it to secure it with a carabinner to my climbing harness. I keep it clipped to the harness but I just want to make sure it doesn't fall off if I happen to unclip it by accident.
I am planning on getting some paracord and making lanyards for my fixed blades, so they help to keep my hand out of the blade while choking up on it to do some delicate work.
Mikel
 
I use a lanyard every day. With my past history of losing "users" I wouldn't pocket-carry a knife without one. My knife is the AG Russell Hunters Scalpel and the lanyard ties the hard locking sheath to my belt. There's always a chance I could lose the knife anyway, but so far I've remembered every time to clip it back into the sheath.

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I dont know if this counts but i use a simple leather sting or shoelace attached to my vic handyman and a crabiner clipped onto a belt loop to keep it from falling out of my pocket.
 
I don't because they just seem to be in the way or tangling most of the time. A lanyard can help with chopping, however, by allowing you to hold the knife securely by the butt and get a better swing since the wrist lanyard is providing tension that keeps the knife from slipping out of your grasp. A very short lanyard with a clip can be a secure way to attach a knife to something such as a life lacket or pack. The only other time I would consider using one is over water or wherever dropping the knife would be a major problem, but in a typical situation like that, I would usually just move the task to a better location since that is usually easier than making a lanyard.
 
On a large chopper, a forward lanyard can't be beat. Absolutely keeps the knife in the position you want it. I use the rear lanyards on knives I carry in the side pocket of my carpenter pants.
Scott
 
I tend to go through phases,im just a fussy git at the end of the day.The only type of lanyard I use is a simple loop that hitches onto the thumb and the remaining cord runs over the back of the hand and up into bottom of the clenched fist; You can quickly drop the knife if you need to or recover it single handedly by swaying the weight and catching. I cant say I like the idea of wrist lanyards but each to thier own :)
 
Lately, I've found them to be getting in the way. Decorative, yes, but if I clip it on the inside waist, even small paracords scream, "Knife!" If I carry a knife in my pocket, yes, it's easier to find and extract, but it gets banged up because of the loose change and other stuff floating around.

For decorative paracord, where can one get it in bright colors?

Oh, and knguye11, what are you using to cap the paracord?
 
I use them on some knives, and not on others.

I like to have a loop on a chopper which goes around my wrist. If the knife somehow gets away from me, it won't fall to the ground or take off somewhere else.

I also like them on some knives which have no guards. I knot them so that I can hold the fob/lanyard between my little and ring fingers. This kind of locks them into my hand and gives an extra measure of security.
I can also flip the knife out of my palm and hold it by the fob while I use both hands on some task, then flip it back up into my palm.

I don't like them on knives that are used for any kind of wet work, because the cord gets wet and can get kind of nasty.

I also use them to get knives out of pouch sheaths.

Andy
 
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